Category Archives: People

Eyal Weizman – The Least of All Possible Evils

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Out soon Now out with Verso: The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press finally have a page up for the translation of Foucault’s 1981 lectures at Louvain – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. They are due out in January 2013. Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, Parting Ways

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s long-awaited book on Jewish and Zionist thought is forthcoming in July. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism will be published by Columbia University Press. Judith Butler follows Edward Said’s late suggestion that through a consideration of … Continue reading →

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Agamben, Highest Poverty draft preface

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface to Agamben’s Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms of Life He previously made the preface to Opus Dei available. Both books are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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Sloterdijk – You Must Change Your Life

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The English translation of Sloterdijk’s book is scheduled for November – full details here.

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at a conference on Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power on 21 June at Lancaster University  – I’ll be giving an abbreviated version of the ‘Fossils’ paper I gave in Canberra and Macau last year. Thanks to Kathryn Yusoff … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, The Space of the World | 4 Comments

Mark Purcell on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

There is a very generous review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World collection by Mark Purcell in the new issue of Social and Cultural Geography (requires subscription). [Update: Mark has posted the whole thing here] Let me say this plainly: this is … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Nottingham

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

After the Paris event we were up early the next morning to get the Eurostar to London, and then a train to Nottingham – made a little trickier by the ASLEF strike action (but a strike that doesn’t disrupt things isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Paris

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

The conference of Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir’s ‘Exterritory‘ project in Paris was a really interesting event. Sponsored by the Kadist Foundation and the Evens Foundation, it was held in a remarkable space – Le Comptoir Général. As the rain came down, it was … Continue reading →

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